Spring-fitter.



E. E. EICKE.

SPRING mm.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 11. 1915.

l 1 8 6,559 Patented June 13, 1916.

IN KENTOR.

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EARL E. EICKE, scanner-ensued, oenrronmn, assienon OFONE-THIRD TO L. A..

DURYEA AND ONE-THIRD T WILLIAM ivi. HAINES, BOTH or EAST AUBURN, CALI- FORNIA.

SPRING-FITTEB.

Applicationifiled May ll, 1915. Serial No. 27,416.

Specification of Letters Patent.

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To all to hom it may concern Be itknown that I, EARL E. EIGKE, a citizen of the United States, residing at East Auburn, in the county of Placer, State of able within the lever 11 is a fixed roller 13.. At a space slightly above the position of the roller 13, the said lever 11 is provided with long slots 14 movable in which is a California, have invented certain new and pin 15 supported in a link 16 hinged at its useful Improvements in Spring-Fitters; and upper end to a hand lever 17 projecting ad- I do declare the following to be a full, clear, jacent the handle member 12. and exact description of the same, reference On the pin 15 is a roller 18 normally being had to the accompanying drawings, spaced a slight distance from the roller 13.- and to the characters of reference marked In practice, when thespring is to be fitted thereon, which form a part of this applior formed, a formerspring or other supti porting structure 19 is fitted over the pin 8. This invention relates to improvements in The new spring 20 is then heated to a pliable means for fitting and forming vehicle heat and is likewise fitted over the pin 8. springs of all kinds, the object of the inven- The two springs are then admitted between tion being to produce a means whereby this the rollers 13 and ,18 and the roller 18 is fitting or forming of the said springs can clamped down against them by means of the be done in a rapid and efficient manner and operator grasping the handle member 12 the spring tensioned all in one simple operand lever 17 and drawing them together. ation and with a minimum expense of time Then by operating the lever 11 backward and labor, and forward over the springs 19 and 20, the

A further object of the invention is to spring 20 will be shaped and formed to conproduce a simple and inexpensive device form to the guide spring 19. The new'spring and yet one which will be exceedingly eifecis then made to exactly conform to the curtiv f th purposes for which it is devature of the former spring by pressing signed, downwardly along the length of the same. These objects I accomplish by means of During the operation above noted, the such structure and relative arrangement of members 19 and 20 are held against moveparts as will fully appear by a perusal of ment by means of the clamp structure which the following specification and claims. is brought into use by the operator grasp- In the drawings similar characters of refing the handle members 4 and 6 and impingerence indicate corresponding parts in the ing the lug 7 against the two spring memseveral views. bers 19 and 20. I provide the roller 18 with Figure 1 is a side elevation of the coma central groove 18 so that in the event it is plete mechanism. Fig. 2 is a front elevation desired to form a ribbed spring, the said of the same. Fig. 3 is a detached fragmengroove 18 Wlll allow of the metal being tary View of a holding clamp. forced therein as the rollers are moved back- Referring now more particularly to the ward and forward, thus forming the rib characters of reference on the drawings, the aforesaid. invention first embodies a suitable support From the foregoing description it will be 9 ing post or standard 1 bolted or-clamped in readily seen that I have produced such a any suitable manner, as at 2, to the floor or device as substantially fulfils the object of other desired place. On one side of the the invention as set forth herein. member 1 is a holding clamp consisting of a While this specification sets forth in defixed rod 3 secured to the post 1 and having tail the present and preferred construction 10 a projecting handle a hinged to which is a of the device, still in practice such deviamovable rod 5 having a downwardly protions from such detail may be resorted to jeeting lug 7 for a purpose as will presently as do not form a departure from the spirit appear. 7 of the invention, as defined by the appended Projecting upwardly from the upper end claims. of the standard 1 is a holding pin 8. Piv- Having thus described my invention What otally mounted on the support 1 is a pro I claim as new and useful and desire to sejecting link 9 carrying a pin 10 in its outer cure by Letters Patent is: I end, hinged to which, is a lever 11 having 1. A device of the character described 1 at its upper end a handle member 12. Turncomprising a supporting member, a flat formerinounted on the member, a lever flexibly 7 connected With the support and having a pair ofspaced rollers, one on each side of the former, one of said rollers arranged to bear continuously against the former,,the-* other roller being movable andarranged to flatten material between such last "named roller and the former as described.

12A device of the character described comprising a support, a former carried by the support, a link'pivotally mounted on the support, a lever pivotally mounted on the" link, and a pair of spaced rollerson the lever, onev on each side of the former, one rollerbeing movable with respect to the lever as described;

3. A device of the character described comprising a support, a former mounted on 7 link, a fixed roller disposed on the lever,

the support, a link pivotallymounted on" the support, a' lever pivotz'tlly mounted on the slidable roller mounted on the lever, a hand lever fulcrumed on the first named lever,

and a link connecting the slidable roller to the hand lever as described. I

fl. eh device of the character described comprising a'support, a former carried by the support, a link pivotally mounted on 7 said support, a lever hinged to said link, a

fixed roller mounted in said lever, a roller movable longitudinally in said lever and Witnesses: V

E.- C. Brown, S. LUKENS.

*0op1es'ot t1iilpatent mai be cram-a2romvwem eaclig liy addressing the ,Commissio'ner'of'Patents,

EARL E. EIIOK-E. 

